Martin Enserink

Martin Enserink is specializes in European science policy, infectious diseases, and global health. He has covered disease outbreaks on four continents, including the 2001 anthrax letters, the global outbreak of SARS in 2003, and the 2009 H1N1 influenza pandemic. He has also written extensively about basic research, epidemiology, ecology, and drug and vaccine development for many diseases. Martin has mentored science journalists in Africa in a program run by the World Federation of Science Journalists, and together with Helen Branswell, has produced ‘Covering Ebola’, an online course on the WFSJ’s website. After working at Science’s headquarters in Washington, D.C. and the magazine’s Paris bureau, he is now based in Amsterdam.